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Chapter One – New Room Mates

"I have to go and sit up the front of the train." Hermione called out to her friends, Harry and Ron, as they bustled onto the Hogwarts Express, "I'll see you at the Welcoming Feast."

Hermione Granger was a witch just entering her seventh and final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She had been a prefect the previous year and this year, much to her delight, she had been made Head Girl.

'I wonder who made Head Boy?' she thought as she fought her way to the front compartment. To her horror, the boy sitting in the Heads compartment was none other than Draco Malfoy.

"What are you doing here Malfoy?" she asked, hoping he was lost. But no, he had a shiny, silver Head Boy badge, the same as her Head Girl one.

Draco glared at her, "I was made Head Boy mudblood. What are you doing here?"

Hermione glared right back at him, "I'm Head Girl you idiot."

"Oh great. You mean I'm stuck sharing a dorm with you all year."

'What! Sharing a dorm. I didn't know the Heads shared a dorm.' She thought.

"You look shocked Granger." Draco sneered, "Don't tell me you didn't know we had to share a dorm."

Hermione ignored him and sat down on the opposite seat. She stared out the window but Draco's reflection in the glass caused her to gape.

'Damn, he's got hot over the summer.' She was shocked at her thoughts but she couldn't deny that Draco was a hunk. His pale, skinny figure had filled out with firm muscles and his pale hair had grown longer and shaggier, much better than the slick, shiny cap her used to have. 'But still,' she told herself, 'this is Draco Malfoy. Hot or not, he's still an arrogant, self centred, heartless prick.'

Draco, meanwhile, was having similar thoughts, for while he had changed from a pale and skinny boy to a hunk, Hermione had changed from a bushy-haired, bucktoothed geek into a very sexy girl. Her bushy hair had been thinned considerably and now settled in gentle waves down her back and her buckteeth had been shrunk with magic a few years back. She had filled out over the past few years too, giving her a very curvaceous figure. Draco could not believe this was the same girl he had hated for the past six years.

'Of course its her!' he thought, 'Now stop staring at her like an idiot. She's only a filthy mudblood.'

"So who's Head Boy Hermione?" Ron asked as she sat down next to him and Harry at the Gryffindor table.

She scowled angrily at the thought, "Guess."

"Malfoy." Harry said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"How'd you know?"

"Because you look like you just drank a goblet of Skelegrow." He replied.

She sighed, "And that's not even the worst part. Guess who I have to share the Heads dorm with all year!"

"No way! That really sucks 'Mione." Ron told her.

"I know Ron." She said irritably.

"Well, at least you don't have to talk to him. You can just ignore him." Harry said reassuringly.

"Yeah. There is that."

Hermione and Draco followed Professor Dumbledore as he led them to their new dormitory. They stopped in front of a portrait of the four house animals. Dumbledore turned to face them.

"You may chose your password now." He informed them.

"How about 'Golden Lion'?" said Hermione.

At the same time, however, Draco had said, "Perhaps 'Silver Snake'?"

Dumbledore smiled and said, "Very well. Your new password is Golden Snake." He walked off down the corridor, leaving them to enter their new dorm.

The portrait swung forward and they stepped through the hole in the wall. The common room was beautifully decorated in shades of green and red. Hermione looked through a door on the right hand side with a plaque on it saying 'Head Girl'. Another door was on the opposite side of the room with a plaque saying 'Head Boy'. They each went into their respective rooms to explore.

Hermione's room was a comfortable size and had a luxurious bathroom off to one side. The bed was a huge, four-poster with red silk curtains. She went back into the common room and was pleased to find all her luggage sitting by the door. She looked at her watch and saw that it was already nine thirty so she had a quick shower, then crawled into her huge bed.

She awoke halfway through the night to the sounds screaming. She had never heard anyone scream like that before. It was terrifying. She raced out of her room and followed the sounds to Draco's door. She burst through, not bothering to knock, and ran to his bed. He was thrashing around with his fist clenched by his sides. His handsome face was screwed up in pain. She began to shake him, scared by what was happening.

"Malfoy." She said quietly, and then, "MALFOY!"

He awoke with a start, looking around to see who shouted.

"What are you doing in my room Granger?" he demanded.

"I woke up. You were having a nightmare or something and it scared me." She told him, "I've never heard anyone scream like that before."

"That, Granger, is the sound someone makes when the Cruciatus Curse is used." He replied before he could stop himself.

"What! But who…? I mean… You were asleep. It was only a nightmare."

He sighed. He'd have to tell her the truth now or else she'd just make her own assumptions. "It was a memory." He explained, "Of all the times my father used the Cruciatus Curse on me this summer because I told him I didn't want to receive the Dark Mark."

Hermione gasped, "You should report him Draco."

"I can't. He'd worm his way out somehow and then he'd come after me."

Hermione didn't know what to say so she got up to leave. She was about to step out the door when Draco called her name.

"Hey! Granger!"

"What?"

"You just called me Draco" He said with a confused look on his face.

…TBC…